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A dying grandmother has joined the chorus of calls for the SNP’s Health Minister to quit after waiting more than three hours for treatment thanks to a delayed ambulance.

Margaret Goodman, 58, who has terminal brain cancer, said she suffered hours of excruciating pain after an ambulance failed to arrive and her husband, Gavin, was forced to drive her to hospital.

The teacher described how she left in a packed "warzone" accident-and-emergency waiting room on a Saturday night earlier this month, before finally receiving a dose of morphine to relieve her pain at 3am.

However, she claimed she did not see a doctor until 7am at Forth Valley Hospital in Larbert, Stirlingshire. This was disputed by the...

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